La educación superior en Colombia: retos y perspectivas en el siglo XXI

Abstract

We live in complex times, but they are necessary for considering the challenges and prospects of higher education in the 21st century. This book proposes to consider some of the many challenges that will spark debate at the beginning of a new decade. Between freedom and critique, the ethical and epistemological possibilities for constructing the contemporary individual, a perhaps evanescent image of the modern subject, open up. It is a critical freedom and, at the same time, a free critique; interchangeable poles within which truth, moral conscience, and power move. Education is precisely inscribed in that space that shifts between freedom and critique. Both poles provide the ingredients with which to craft its meaning. In freedom lies the expansion of horizons for knowledge, experiences, and truth. In critique lies the attitude to question, to interrogate that same truth, and to transform knowledge, society, and the threads of command and obedience. Six authors with diverse visions and trajectories, but articulated in an innate vocation to build a country that relies on education, the foundations of a long-term political, economic, and social project. All of them have dedicated their lives to a fundamental dimension for the defense of a democratic, critical, and progressive society. The reflection does not stop with the publication of this book. On the contrary, it gains momentum in the context of a local, national, and global situation that invites us to consider other possible worlds.